WEEK 8: ח/Het echoes with dissonance, strains of regret and anger prompting soul-growth, a ladder linking loss and lasting life. WORD: ח/Het embodies that guttural ACH-growl of exertion that hovers between exasperation and exaltation. Knowing the pain of regret and a flame of righteous anger, she is the ‘mother of all [new] life,’ חוה. WORD-NUMBER PLAY: An early for of this letter was shaped like a ladder. As in Jacob’s dream, she frames the vicissitudes of life as bridges be